Writing Gender Writing Self

Introduction 1. (Re)Positioning the 'Other': Perspectives on Marathi Dalit and Black Women Writings 2. What the Text Does not Say: Significant Absence and the Self in Arathi Menon's Leaving Home with Half a Fridge 3. Retracing the Discourse of Referential Truth in Claude Cahun and Alison Bechdel's Visual Narratives 4. Humorous Women's Memoirs in the Entertainment Industry 5. A Case for Homosexuality: Reading Anchee Min's Red Azalea as a Political Autobiography 6. Self, Time and Death as Autobiographical Elements in Performance Art 7. Intersecting Terrains of Personal and Politics: An Arab Feminist Reading of Fadwa Tuqan's A Mountainous Journey 8. Subverting Literary Space: From [His]stories to [Her]story in Writings of Kamala Das, Sally Morgan and Melba Pattillo Beals 9. Daughter of the East and the Perils of (Self)Idealization 10. Identity and Self-Representation in Taslima Nasreen's My Girlhood 11. Sexuality, Self and Body: Reading Michele Roberts' Memoir Paper Houses 12. Vocalizing the Voiceless: Struggle for a Personal Voice in Maxine Hong Kingston's TheWoman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 13. Lifting 'the Quilt': Ismat Chughtai's A Life in Words and the Subversion of the Normative 14. Indian Nationalism and Hindu Widowhood: Contesting Margins in Indira Goswami's Adha Lekha Dastabej 15. Veiled Voices: Semi-autobiographies of Yemeni Writers Nadia al-Kawkabani and Shatha al-Khateeb 16. Breaking the Silence: Tehmina Durrani's My Feudal Lord 17. Re-Reading Azar Nafisi's memoir Things I've Been Silent About 18. Rational Femininity and the Mode of Hijra Autobiographies: The Affects of Being a Gendered Object 19. Marginalized Sexual Identity: A Flash Point of Body/Desire/Politics 20. Self narratives of working Class women: Voices from the Global South 21. Of Being Ants amongst Elephants: The Anecdotes and the Antidotes